subscribe
/səbˈskɹaɪb/ verb
Forms subscribes subscribing subscribed
- verb (archaic outside law) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
- verb (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation. “Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.”
- verb (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time. “Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?”
- verb To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service. “I subscribed to this streaming service years ago.”
- verb To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to]. “I don’t subscribe to that theory.”
- verb To pay money to be a member of an organization.
- verb (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
- verb (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount. “Each man subscribed ten dollars.”
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Etymology
From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere (“write beneath”). By surface analysis, sub- + scribe. Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
- verb To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
- verb To sign one's name to a letter or other document. Shak.
- verb To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.
Etymology [L. subscribere, subscriptum; sub under + scribere to write: cf. F. souscrire. See Scribe.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “subscribe”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details